Elements of Digital Citizenship - A Reflection
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The proliferation of new forms of technology and media in the 21st century, such as smartphones and social media, has left us in a new age of innovation in our lifestyles, bringing with it a digital world. The natives of this new world are Generation Z, the generation born around the turn of the millenium and the years after. They have always known a world where technology was integrated into daily life and are faced with new challenges previous generations did not have to face. To meet these challenges of membership in the digital s paces of this new world they inhabit, they need to develop a new skill set, that of digital citizenship. I would define digital citizenship as the application of principles that impact digital lifestyles, habits, consumptions and interactions in order to sustain and improve digital communities (Heick, 2018; Ohler, 2011; Ribble, 2015). Ribble (2015) discussed how digital citizenship needs to be modelled, promoted and cultivated in students at all